In the release of Totara 19.1 there are a number of improvements and new features.
Totara AI features
From Totara 19.1 we launch our new Totara AI features. Totara’s approach to artificial intelligence is centred on enhancing learning and performance in meaningful, responsible ways. We focus on delivering practical tools that streamline workflows, support goal setting, and improve learner experiences—while keeping you in control of how AI is used in your organisation.
Totara Learn
Course and category pagination
To improve performance, enabling course and category pagination limits the number of items loaded at once on the Courses and categories management page - making it faster and more efficient to use.
Digital seminar self-attendance
Digital Self-attendance for seminars allows learners to check-in and confirm their attendance for seminar events using either an event-specific URL or a QR code. Attendance is then automatically recorded in the system, reducing administration for Site Administrators.
Program and certification self-enrolment
As a Site Administrator you can now setup a new Group assignment type. This allows configuration for learners to self enrol into a program/certification, as well as the option to withdraw from that program/certification.
Improved featured links and learning block visuals
The Featured links block sees UI improvements with rounded corners on Featured links, and improved padding and alignment of text on Featured Links to look modern and intentional.
Reorder dashboards
You can now easily control the order in which dashboards appear in the list by setting a display position. This makes it simpler to manage large numbers of dashboards, especially for organisations with complex configurations or multi-tenancy enabled.
Exclude items from the catalogue
Site Administrators can exclude courses from the catalogue by enabling the Exclude from catalogue setting directly within the Edit course settings page. This enables courses to be hidden from catalogue browsing and searches, while still allowing access via enrolment paths such as through programs and certifications, or direct links.
Improved catalogue search capabilities
Several enhancements have been introduced to improve the catalogue’s search capabilities, accuracy of results, and personalised recommendations.
Improvements to the Recommendations block
Recommendations are personalised content suggestions designed to help you discover learning materials that are most relevant, useful, or interesting to you. Recommendations are grouped into AI-powered suggestions and smart, curated learning, which can be displayed using various content blocks.
Ability to compress files
There is a new scheduled report setting which allows Site Administrators to choose to compress the file which is sent within the scheduled report email.
Set file size limit for scheduled reports
This new setting allows Site Administrators to adjust the maximum file size for email attachments in scheduled reports.
Totara Perform
Managing access to performance activity instances
The managing access to performance activity instances feature enables Site Administrators and Performance activity managers to manually remove or restore access to participant instances within performance activities. This enhancement highlights the critical responsibility of Site Administrators and Performance activity managers to actively manage access and ensure users retain visibility only over activities relevant to their current roles or job assignments.
Totara Mobile
Mobile offline support
Totara mobile offers offline support in the Totara mobile app, allowing users to download entire courses or individual activities for offline access. It ensures users can continue learning without internet and supports shared devices by retaining downloaded content across login sessions.
Totara mobile catalogue search improvements
The Find Learning page in the Totara Mobile app has been enhanced to offer a more focused and personalised experience, allowing learners to search and filter content with the same flexibility as on desktop—helping them quickly find what’s relevant and reduce frustration.
Totara Platform
Webhooks
Webhooks allow your Totara site to automatically send information to another system when something happens. Think of them as a way to “push” updates out in real time, rather than waiting for another system to check Totara for changes.
New debugging tool, Excimer
The Excimer profiler is included as a core component to help diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues in production environments. This profiler runs efficiently and safely, capturing performance data for slow requests without impacting system stability.
External API IP whitelisting
Site Administrators can restrict which IP addresses are allowed to make requests using a specific API client. This provides greater security and control over how external systems interact with your Totara site via the external API.
Rotating external API client secret
When a Totara instance with external API is enabled, and you add an API client, there is the option when viewing API clients to select Rotate client secret. The Rotate client secret action gives the ability for the client_secret to be regenerated. This not only re-generates the client_secret but also removes any API tokens that were previously generated using it.
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